Organic Chemistry

Basic Reading (For Part B)

 R. T. Morrison, R. N. Boyd, Organic Chemistry, 6th edition, Prentice-Hall, New Delhi, 1992. (For
Basic understanding, very good for basic concepts)
 P. Y. Bruice, K. J. R. Prasad, Essential Organic Chemistry, 1st edition, Pearson Education, New Delhi,
2008. (Again Fundamental Organic Book)
 Organic Reaction Mechanism by Peter Sykes (Must have for Basic Organic Mechanism)
 M. B. Smith, Organic Synthesis, McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2001

Advance Reading (For Part C)

 J. Clayden, N. Greeves, S. Warren, Organic Chemistry, 2nd edition, Oxford Unviersity Press, New
Delhi, 2012. (Must have for CSIR NET)
 W. Carruthers and I. Coldham, Modern Methods of Organic Synthesis, 4th ed., Cambridge
University Press, UK, 2004. (Advance Organic Synthesis)
 Modern Organic Synthesis by Michael Nantz and Zweifel
 J. March, Advanced Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Canada, 1992.
 F. A. Carey and R. J. Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A & B, 5th ed., Springer, New
York, 2007. (For Advance Readers)
 Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, Wiley: New York, Eleil (BEST BOOK FOR NET)

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

 Spectroscopy by Donald Pavia (Excellent Book for Basic Spectroscopy)

 Symmetry and spectroscopy of Molecules by K Veera Reddy (Another Good book for Electronic
Spectroscopy)
 Molecular Spectroscopy by Banwell (Basic Book for Physical spectroscopy)
 1H NMR and C13 NMR spectroscopy by Metin and Balcii
 J. M. Hollas, Modern Spectroscopy (Fourth Edition), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2004. (Only For
Advance Readings)

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
 Inorganic Chemistry by James E. Huheey, Ellen A. Keiter, Richard R. Keiter, Fourth Edition,
Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993 (International Edition Prefereable)

 Coordination chemistry by ramlingam

 Inorganic Chemistry (5th Edition) by D. F. Shriver and P. W. Atkins; Oxford

 Chemistry of the Elements by N N Greenwood & A Earnshaw, Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier,

Oxford, 2005 (Indian Reprint)

 Inorganic Chemistry By Gary L. Miessler & Donald A. Tarr and Donald A. Tarr, Pearson, Prentice
Hall, New Jersey, 2010

 Concepts and Models of Inorganic Chemistry (3rd Edition) by B. E. Douglas, D. H. McDaniel, J. J.

Alexander; John Wiley (Must for Advance Inorganic Chemistry)

 Inorganic Chemistry by Gary Wulfsberg , 2006,University Science Books (For Advance Readers)
  Biological inorganic chemistry : structure and reactivity / edited by Ivano Bertini

 Infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic and coordination compounds by Nakamoto

 Inorganic and organometallic polymers by Chandrasekhar, Vadapalli.

ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
 Basic Organometallic Chemistry: Concepts, Syntheses and Application by BD Gupta & Anil J Elias
Year,2013, Universities Press (For basic Readers)
 Organometallics: A Concise Introduction by Christoph Elschenbroich,2006, Wiley-VCH3rd Edition
(Excellent Books for Advance Readings)
 Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms, Atwood
 Inorganic Spectroscopy by Drago

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
 Physical chemistry by Castellan
 Physical Chemistry by KL Kapoor (VOL I – V) (must have collection of these series)
 Physical chemistry by Mortimer (Very good book for thermodynamics & quantum chemistry)
 Physical chemistry by Atkins (Favorite book of CSIR NET Exam Setter)
 Physical chemistry by silbey and bawendi (For Basic Concepts)
 Physical chemistry by Samuel Glasstone.

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
 P. W. Atkins and R. S. Friedman, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2004. (Must for Quantum Chemistry basics)
 Quantum Chemistry by RK Prasad
 J. P. Lowe and K. Petersen, Quantum Chemistry, Elsevier Academic Press, MA, USA, 2006
 A. K. Chandra, Quantum Chemistry, Tata McGrawHill, New Delhi, 2004.
 Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar (For Physical aspects of Quantum Chemistry)
 D. A. McQuarrie, Quantum Chemistry, Viva Books, New Delhi, 2003. (Must have for CSIR NET)
 Physical chemistry by Robert G. Mortimer, Harcourt/Academic Press, c2000
 Quantum Chemistry : through problems and solutions by RK Prasad.

GROUP THEORY
 Group theory by Alan Vincent
 F. A. Cotton, Chemical applications of Group theory, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1990
 D. M. Bishop, Group Theory and Chemistry, Dover Publications, New York, 1977.

CHEMICAL KINETICS

 Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics by Paul L. Houston (For Advance Reaading)
 Chemical kinetics and Reaction dynamics by Santosh Upadhyay (For Basic Understanding)
 Chemical Kinetics by Ladler
 PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PERICYCLIC REACTIONS:
 Photochemistry and pericyclic Reactions by Jagdamba Singh